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:
[291, 47, 288, 27, 145, 228, 94, 219, 240, 148, 76, 48, 68, 10, 44, 229, 38, 239, 188, 59], k=13

Ex Output:
188


Ex Input:
[170, 146, 278, 212, 79, 175, 256, 230, 120, 282, 126, 97, 190, 33, 196, 174, 39, 188, 47, 243], k=4

Ex Output:

79