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.
Q: [182, 93, 282, 251, 185, 285, 123, 216, 136, 165, 161, 75, 247, 246, 162, 141, 124, 13, 188, 191], k=13
A:
188