In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

Input: Consider Input: [129, 75, 285, 265, 190, 68, 56, 171, 228, 174, 200, 208, 134, 84, 210, 48, 272, 47, 199, 116], k=15

Output: 208


Input: Consider Input: [41, 298, 78, 45, 265, 123, 287, 16, 198, 266, 38, 69, 18, 165, 271, 14, 82, 75, 252, 80], k=8

Output: 75


Input: Consider Input: [132, 118, 107, 69, 262, 17, 92, 63, 232, 178, 298, 224, 82, 287, 144, 268, 73, 71, 48, 94], k=12


Output: 132