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 Q]: [261, 53, 110, 80, 257, 117, 112, 45, 21, 74, 68, 72, 63, 152, 141, 246, 47, 262, 189, 103], k=6
[EX A]: 68

[EX Q]: [124, 118, 236, 227, 74, 148, 136, 33, 121, 253, 282, 246, 229, 186, 181, 235, 146, 67, 298, 244], k=4
[EX A]: 118

[EX Q]: [285, 217, 45, 68, 242, 281, 185, 60, 86, 170, 91, 131, 201, 263, 138, 140, 220, 299, 133, 35], k=11
[EX A]:
170