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.
[289, 192, 281, 277, 296, 105, 64, 168, 80, 115, 163, 205, 255, 269, 89, 72, 106, 132, 187, 20], k=12
A:
187