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]: [88, 138, 230, 71, 119, 274, 257, 233, 10, 293, 49, 245, 35, 205, 36, 161, 63, 147, 87, 114], k=8
[EX A]: 88

[EX Q]: [55, 246, 14, 54, 103, 101, 213, 70, 183, 200, 250, 97, 221, 282, 19, 252, 228, 59, 13, 204], k=13
[EX A]: 204

[EX Q]: [262, 175, 116, 233, 122, 247, 267, 286, 13, 74, 28, 145, 126, 205, 165, 259, 238, 76, 81, 177], k=9
[EX A]:
145