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]: [228, 44, 141, 240, 283, 75, 297, 245, 210, 49, 251, 69, 145, 274, 103, 264, 80, 36, 57, 208], k=10
[EX A]: 145

[EX Q]: [173, 71, 170, 278, 201, 293, 256, 208, 222, 192, 126, 277, 258, 70, 60, 284, 109, 156, 102, 219], k=13
[EX A]: 219

[EX Q]: [242, 172, 34, 225, 45, 63, 261, 79, 207, 174, 192, 106, 108, 14, 297, 88, 180, 43, 241, 58], k=3
[EX A]:
43