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]: [182, 287, 153, 29, 292, 220, 52, 104, 299, 236, 113, 10, 117, 125, 95, 44, 180, 42, 173, 215], k=2
[EX A]: 29

[EX Q]: [178, 142, 146, 64, 29, 225, 162, 274, 62, 51, 177, 263, 80, 173, 179, 282, 58, 164, 172, 271], k=15
[EX A]: 179

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