Instructions: 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.
Input: [53, 81, 225, 98, 48, 65, 28, 158, 11, 168, 220, 128, 120, 249, 127, 55, 236, 213, 116, 115], k=10
Output:
116