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]: [207, 198, 256, 176, 228, 201, 72, 241, 284, 203, 28, 230, 223, 80, 249, 266, 111, 98, 104, 170], k=8
[A]: 176


[Q]: [253, 223, 232, 292, 217, 68, 55, 190, 122, 299, 176, 154, 280, 204, 50, 29, 179, 130, 10, 241], k=11
[A]: 190


[Q]: [212, 240, 80, 64, 221, 163, 75, 242, 182, 13, 123, 100, 74, 24, 165, 167, 158, 289, 77, 145], k=15
[A]:
182