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:
[101, 60, 42, 104, 107, 109, 273, 288, 64, 23, 144, 18, 298, 247, 158, 53, 145, 46, 155, 80], k=5

Ex Output:
53


Ex Input:
[71, 183, 25, 244, 297, 108, 120, 104, 20, 217, 221, 100, 38, 205, 234, 144, 87, 218, 82, 75], k=3

Ex Output:
38


Ex Input:
[81, 235, 25, 282, 104, 10, 130, 20, 56, 21, 232, 265, 274, 198, 131, 267, 97, 121, 167, 261], k=16

Ex Output:

261