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 Input:
[239, 110, 47, 43, 56, 185, 243, 72, 159, 130, 274, 122, 230, 148, 280, 296, 116, 11, 179, 294], k=1

Ex Output:
11

Ex Input:
[157, 17, 177, 115, 219, 106, 124, 167, 210, 193, 171, 148, 242, 183, 236, 55, 11, 127, 165, 212], k=11

Ex Output:
167

Ex Input:
[73, 55, 234, 249, 278, 48, 169, 163, 119, 225, 88, 286, 47, 285, 37, 248, 226, 23, 127, 187], k=10

Ex Output:
163