Definition: 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: [242, 54, 259, 204, 67, 182, 168, 17, 287, 143, 272, 78, 48, 91, 224, 84, 201, 126, 18, 199], k=13
Output:
199