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: [15, 122, 80, 104, 234, 167, 264, 168, 102, 94, 209, 73, 52, 134, 64, 178, 175, 57, 74, 109], k=6
A:
74