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.

[EX Q]: [291, 47, 288, 27, 145, 228, 94, 219, 240, 148, 76, 48, 68, 10, 44, 229, 38, 239, 188, 59], k=13
[EX A]: 188

[EX Q]: [118, 135, 157, 125, 187, 92, 41, 91, 72, 69, 167, 38, 154, 85, 26, 213, 287, 271, 212, 138], k=3
[EX A]: 41

[EX Q]: [272, 96, 64, 119, 236, 228, 129, 252, 297, 201, 144, 29, 20, 200, 162, 79, 285, 254, 189, 196], k=16
[EX A]:
252