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:
[297, 179, 276, 218, 102, 186, 299, 36, 42, 239, 73, 228, 124, 240, 166, 130, 167, 195, 255, 152], k=20

Ex Output:
299


Ex Input:
[90, 110, 222, 54, 223, 287, 43, 153, 17, 218, 87, 130, 244, 297, 159, 267, 272, 55, 248, 86], k=8

Ex Output:
110


Ex Input:
[241, 119, 166, 55, 225, 112, 67, 32, 47, 267, 129, 294, 69, 229, 174, 157, 286, 245, 101, 115], k=17

Ex Output:

245