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]: [285, 217, 45, 68, 242, 281, 185, 60, 86, 170, 91, 131, 201, 263, 138, 140, 220, 299, 133, 35], k=11
[EX A]: 170

[EX Q]: [207, 198, 256, 176, 228, 201, 72, 241, 284, 203, 28, 230, 223, 80, 249, 266, 111, 98, 104, 170], k=8
[EX A]: 176

[EX Q]: [110, 296, 103, 146, 160, 107, 216, 24, 157, 61, 203, 186, 15, 123, 53, 294, 65, 208, 264, 109], k=10
[EX A]:
123