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]: [275, 200, 282, 39, 14, 78, 85, 228, 225, 136, 34, 52, 89, 135, 17, 41, 218, 37, 196, 119], k=17
[EX A]: 225

[EX Q]: [295, 158, 276, 100, 174, 297, 213, 26, 20, 62, 207, 224, 203, 245, 274, 287, 167, 265, 241, 84], k=9
[EX A]: 203

[EX Q]: [281, 142, 133, 266, 79, 192, 140, 96, 48, 56, 268, 247, 22, 143, 195, 222, 36, 295, 93, 13], k=4
[EX A]:
48