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]: [55, 246, 14, 54, 103, 101, 213, 70, 183, 200, 250, 97, 221, 282, 19, 252, 228, 59, 13, 204], k=13
[A]: 204


[Q]: [182, 93, 282, 251, 185, 285, 123, 216, 136, 165, 161, 75, 247, 246, 162, 141, 124, 13, 188, 191], k=13
[A]: 188


[Q]: [278, 41, 208, 239, 246, 23, 268, 17, 96, 253, 248, 177, 244, 15, 280, 60, 59, 257, 199, 123], k=13
[A]:
244