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.

Input: Consider Input: [176, 263, 284, 189, 131, 102, 40, 179, 289, 150, 209, 81, 114, 51, 162, 48, 66, 195, 49, 20], k=10

Output: 131


Input: Consider Input: [18, 299, 42, 255, 77, 40, 162, 199, 228, 168, 23, 212, 268, 283, 25, 217, 208, 247, 43, 92], k=14

Output: 217


Input: Consider Input: [297, 154, 166, 65, 256, 282, 150, 241, 67, 255, 79, 232, 27, 192, 81, 298, 144, 155, 252, 111], k=11


Output: 166