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.
[180, 257, 70, 83, 264, 61, 245, 125, 50, 285, 121, 163, 79, 290, 54, 293, 170, 174, 64, 244], k=20
A:
293