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]: [199, 289, 81, 195, 20, 292, 45, 275, 163, 180, 108, 67, 52, 57, 13, 118, 247, 26, 150, 161], k=11
[A]: 150


[Q]: [45, 120, 23, 285, 143, 53, 174, 299, 247, 250, 34, 12, 202, 117, 245, 25, 89, 203, 275, 239], k=12
[A]: 202


[Q]: [136, 140, 51, 218, 101, 66, 179, 280, 96, 182, 240, 229, 20, 212, 16, 223, 255, 121, 15, 221], k=7
[A]:
101