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.

[86, 198, 236, 176, 174, 224, 164, 37, 22, 88, 61, 191, 235, 181, 268, 275, 226, 78, 68, 270], k=11
181

[200, 171, 235, 83, 84, 109, 278, 80, 181, 169, 59, 85, 277, 204, 242, 123, 232, 11, 201, 175], k=17
235

[242, 172, 34, 225, 45, 63, 261, 79, 207, 174, 192, 106, 108, 14, 297, 88, 180, 43, 241, 58], k=3

43