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]: [124, 215, 224, 251, 261, 118, 255, 52, 77, 67, 36, 20, 167, 46, 97, 269, 198, 136, 291, 135], k=20
[EX A]: 291

[EX Q]: [204, 41, 236, 97, 178, 250, 180, 257, 124, 120, 126, 265, 185, 152, 281, 233, 268, 283, 286, 71], k=17
[EX A]: 268

[EX Q]: [212, 240, 80, 64, 221, 163, 75, 242, 182, 13, 123, 100, 74, 24, 165, 167, 158, 289, 77, 145], k=15
[EX A]:
182