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]: [278, 263, 14, 101, 25, 97, 46, 288, 94, 13, 111, 144, 89, 159, 233, 32, 69, 216, 24, 65], k=13
[A]: 111

[Q]: [193, 150, 74, 50, 282, 231, 174, 238, 176, 67, 130, 113, 239, 165, 173, 162, 216, 136, 59, 177], k=12
[A]: 174

[Q]: [137, 90, 208, 53, 235, 288, 134, 195, 234, 31, 215, 258, 192, 296, 20, 135, 106, 166, 243, 253], k=3
[A]:
53