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.
[115, 53, 104, 256, 242, 101, 82, 108, 88, 47, 212, 222, 298, 102, 35, 119, 269, 217, 42, 236], k=6
A:
88