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: [165, 225, 23, 126, 79, 185, 30, 208, 275, 131, 296, 238, 171, 229, 174, 145, 24, 187, 159, 218], k=19
A:
275