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]: [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]: [155, 72, 71, 257, 17, 132, 266, 299, 290, 125, 38, 86, 37, 202, 185, 59, 70, 222, 145, 175], k=8
[A]: 86

[Q]: [69, 182, 35, 280, 130, 107, 92, 206, 24, 279, 188, 212, 278, 25, 127, 113, 105, 50, 169, 192], k=20
[A]:
280