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:
[149, 100, 190, 102, 298, 30, 150, 221, 209, 51, 44, 117, 72, 159, 181, 81, 125, 31, 188, 58], k=9

Ex Output:
102


Ex Input:
[70, 294, 268, 166, 52, 108, 277, 232, 141, 230, 146, 149, 195, 107, 104, 263, 40, 244, 116, 275], k=11

Ex Output:
166


Ex Input:
[279, 243, 65, 227, 115, 147, 176, 235, 99, 61, 63, 299, 219, 139, 113, 92, 280, 220, 90, 249], k=9

Ex Output:

139