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.

[Q]: [30, 120, 192, 244, 272, 199, 276, 68, 259, 88, 141, 84, 99, 256, 58, 298, 254, 116, 49, 296], k=20
[A]: 298


[Q]: [296, 36, 295, 271, 34, 28, 177, 155, 26, 266, 24, 278, 146, 292, 217, 108, 15, 167, 33, 80], k=11
[A]: 155


[Q]: [227, 108, 115, 232, 297, 144, 267, 88, 244, 91, 68, 114, 248, 180, 173, 219, 257, 66, 236, 197], k=17
[A]:
248