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.

[EX Q]: [173, 71, 170, 278, 201, 293, 256, 208, 222, 192, 126, 277, 258, 70, 60, 284, 109, 156, 102, 219], k=13
[EX A]: 219

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

[EX Q]: [210, 28, 14, 89, 123, 114, 63, 197, 228, 183, 156, 48, 173, 209, 152, 294, 214, 26, 25, 275], k=10
[EX A]:
152