Q: 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.
[27, 70, 212, 164, 256, 204, 25, 51, 31, 139, 22, 102, 160, 106, 15, 74, 177, 126, 223, 290], k=9
A:
102