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.
[13, 163, 14, 96, 93, 58, 193, 71, 242, 264, 297, 237, 294, 299, 272, 118, 245, 131, 30, 172], k=20
A:
299