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.

[Q]: [61, 280, 285, 77, 54, 21, 204, 118, 170, 89, 93, 80, 215, 296, 184, 38, 68, 144, 121, 207], k=6
[A]: 77

[Q]: [160, 68, 285, 220, 278, 27, 218, 165, 81, 256, 105, 25, 107, 103, 29, 190, 134, 175, 74, 185], k=5
[A]: 74

[Q]: [253, 29, 14, 89, 230, 208, 108, 150, 258, 211, 214, 21, 284, 106, 278, 241, 40, 186, 123, 44], k=17
[A]:
253