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]: [72, 285, 153, 18, 207, 96, 39, 37, 113, 237, 156, 56, 270, 134, 279, 32, 181, 211, 55, 17], k=12
[A]: 153


[Q]: [68, 157, 264, 262, 59, 14, 61, 185, 287, 93, 20, 152, 172, 274, 32, 73, 31, 285, 222, 30], k=7
[A]: 61


[Q]: [169, 122, 46, 138, 119, 49, 212, 26, 154, 200, 38, 100, 31, 125, 50, 65, 94, 175, 59, 20], k=7
[A]:
50