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: [200, 80, 13, 113, 23, 189, 255, 148, 239, 187, 233, 163, 88, 83, 164, 194, 252, 157, 291, 178], k=5
A:
88