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]: [144, 18, 223, 63, 151, 196, 244, 85, 107, 170, 239, 126, 292, 159, 122, 97, 129, 229, 207, 202], k=1
[EX A]: 18

[EX Q]: [70, 168, 205, 161, 124, 282, 177, 231, 271, 219, 87, 221, 42, 217, 230, 121, 37, 134, 15, 68], k=3
[EX A]: 42

[EX Q]: [117, 58, 36, 193, 159, 39, 171, 47, 192, 78, 156, 140, 211, 10, 23, 111, 260, 32, 209, 138], k=9
[EX A]:
111