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]: [263, 16, 235, 19, 299, 195, 24, 191, 70, 93, 63, 11, 272, 276, 197, 232, 98, 291, 186, 265], k=5
[A]: 63


[Q]: [178, 142, 146, 64, 29, 225, 162, 274, 62, 51, 177, 263, 80, 173, 179, 282, 58, 164, 172, 271], k=15
[A]: 179


[Q]: [165, 225, 23, 126, 79, 185, 30, 208, 275, 131, 296, 238, 171, 229, 174, 145, 24, 187, 159, 218], k=19
[A]:
275