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]: [53, 280, 105, 133, 146, 112, 237, 125, 120, 263, 204, 149, 59, 117, 137, 130, 172, 206, 82, 94], k=3
[A]: 82


[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]: [296, 36, 295, 271, 34, 28, 177, 155, 26, 266, 24, 278, 146, 292, 217, 108, 15, 167, 33, 80], k=11
[A]:
155