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: [70, 168, 205, 161, 124, 282, 177, 231, 271, 219, 87, 221, 42, 217, 230, 121, 37, 134, 15, 68], k=3
A:
42