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: [207, 198, 256, 176, 228, 201, 72, 241, 284, 203, 28, 230, 223, 80, 249, 266, 111, 98, 104, 170], k=8
Output:
176