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]: [25, 193, 152, 125, 30, 226, 42, 157, 53, 201, 197, 252, 204, 63, 170, 148, 65, 23, 10, 137], k=11
[A]: 148

[Q]: [144, 18, 223, 63, 151, 196, 244, 85, 107, 170, 239, 126, 292, 159, 122, 97, 129, 229, 207, 202], k=1
[A]: 18

[Q]: [68, 157, 264, 262, 59, 14, 61, 185, 287, 93, 20, 152, 172, 274, 32, 73, 31, 285, 222, 30], k=7
[A]:
61