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.

Input: Consider Input: [95, 255, 154, 129, 160, 92, 134, 106, 142, 35, 284, 55, 176, 47, 200, 115, 266, 151, 166, 167], k=16

Output: 176


Input: Consider Input: [235, 118, 154, 225, 98, 42, 134, 239, 60, 174, 141, 243, 206, 75, 241, 195, 262, 211, 258, 144], k=19

Output: 258


Input: Consider Input: [267, 82, 49, 192, 113, 139, 67, 232, 48, 284, 247, 114, 178, 102, 276, 285, 183, 93, 136, 272], k=10


Output: 139