Definition: 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.
Input: [135, 180, 154, 219, 60, 127, 79, 152, 201, 65, 67, 122, 55, 68, 32, 287, 231, 38, 45, 280], k=20
Output:
287