Instructions: 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.
Input: [104, 39, 124, 288, 19, 77, 140, 177, 34, 57, 215, 46, 47, 285, 243, 105, 201, 293, 12, 86], k=5
Output:
46