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]: [202, 16, 28, 103, 294, 94, 32, 152, 284, 131, 177, 269, 72, 49, 64, 183, 98, 89, 217, 286], k=11
[A]: 131


[Q]: [31, 78, 202, 71, 131, 121, 106, 123, 133, 221, 282, 141, 150, 255, 273, 237, 86, 38, 117, 171], k=18
[A]: 255


[Q]: [68, 157, 264, 262, 59, 14, 61, 185, 287, 93, 20, 152, 172, 274, 32, 73, 31, 285, 222, 30], k=7
[A]:
61