Detailed Instructions: 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: [117, 183, 174, 274, 192, 42, 204, 260, 100, 210, 214, 136, 255, 98, 50, 235, 219, 277, 106, 186], k=16
A:
235