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

Ex Output:
248


Ex Input:
[297, 154, 166, 65, 256, 282, 150, 241, 67, 255, 79, 232, 27, 192, 81, 298, 144, 155, 252, 111], k=11

Ex Output:
166


Ex Input:
[160, 68, 285, 220, 278, 27, 218, 165, 81, 256, 105, 25, 107, 103, 29, 190, 134, 175, 74, 185], k=5

Ex Output:

74