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]: [275, 200, 282, 39, 14, 78, 85, 228, 225, 136, 34, 52, 89, 135, 17, 41, 218, 37, 196, 119], k=17
[A]: 225


[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]: [295, 158, 276, 100, 174, 297, 213, 26, 20, 62, 207, 224, 203, 245, 274, 287, 167, 265, 241, 84], k=9
[A]:
203