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: [266, 294, 211, 260, 50, 268, 74, 228, 42, 13, 105, 80, 143, 183, 277, 296, 134, 26, 36, 60], k=4
A:
42