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]: [262, 175, 116, 233, 122, 247, 267, 286, 13, 74, 28, 145, 126, 205, 165, 259, 238, 76, 81, 177], k=9
[EX A]: 145

[EX Q]: [160, 130, 171, 108, 35, 252, 210, 140, 261, 65, 203, 280, 95, 61, 165, 281, 32, 275, 176, 269], k=11
[EX A]: 171

[EX Q]: [296, 36, 295, 271, 34, 28, 177, 155, 26, 266, 24, 278, 146, 292, 217, 108, 15, 167, 33, 80], k=11
[EX A]:
155