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:
[175, 30, 11, 227, 144, 89, 93, 107, 103, 283, 100, 33, 186, 12, 75, 287, 206, 98, 87, 78], k=2

Ex Output:
12


Ex Input:
[228, 44, 141, 240, 283, 75, 297, 245, 210, 49, 251, 69, 145, 274, 103, 264, 80, 36, 57, 208], k=10

Ex Output:
145


Ex Input:
[176, 263, 284, 189, 131, 102, 40, 179, 289, 150, 209, 81, 114, 51, 162, 48, 66, 195, 49, 20], k=10

Ex Output:

131