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.

Ex Input:
[21, 282, 277, 191, 210, 10, 101, 102, 34, 43, 134, 79, 280, 30, 243, 66, 111, 67, 233, 25], k=19

Ex Output:
280


Ex Input:
[174, 74, 209, 109, 124, 272, 236, 231, 115, 254, 165, 234, 21, 64, 198, 264, 166, 23, 29, 144], k=5

Ex Output:
74


Ex Input:
[86, 198, 236, 176, 174, 224, 164, 37, 22, 88, 61, 191, 235, 181, 268, 275, 226, 78, 68, 270], k=11

Ex Output:

181