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]: [292, 116, 83, 47, 68, 195, 133, 182, 231, 154, 128, 184, 263, 284, 22, 66, 127, 72, 228, 98], k=17
[A]: 231


[Q]: [160, 68, 285, 220, 278, 27, 218, 165, 81, 256, 105, 25, 107, 103, 29, 190, 134, 175, 74, 185], k=5
[A]: 74


[Q]: [29, 270, 64, 133, 276, 297, 57, 202, 114, 293, 124, 74, 90, 134, 27, 292, 279, 296, 79, 192], k=10
[A]:
133