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]: [109, 49, 80, 107, 95, 258, 273, 265, 120, 233, 92, 199, 173, 230, 77, 214, 292, 155, 185, 232], k=2
[A]: 77

[Q]: [232, 177, 41, 14, 62, 42, 104, 91, 136, 95, 210, 71, 80, 138, 287, 285, 298, 28, 220, 156], k=12
[A]: 138

[Q]: [126, 265, 104, 289, 284, 219, 273, 203, 48, 173, 46, 70, 110, 42, 148, 209, 131, 11, 71, 105], k=10
[A]:
126