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