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]: [267, 82, 49, 192, 113, 139, 67, 232, 48, 284, 247, 114, 178, 102, 276, 285, 183, 93, 136, 272], k=10
[A]: 139


[Q]: [175, 32, 35, 108, 142, 10, 81, 47, 171, 89, 149, 98, 110, 211, 14, 113, 15, 293, 102, 84], k=16
[A]: 149


[Q]: [13, 25, 221, 106, 90, 132, 47, 31, 292, 123, 285, 186, 151, 125, 191, 261, 230, 159, 252, 259], k=4
[A]:
47