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]: [210, 28, 14, 89, 123, 114, 63, 197, 228, 183, 156, 48, 173, 209, 152, 294, 214, 26, 25, 275], k=10
[EX A]: 152

[EX Q]: [99, 188, 61, 114, 72, 137, 222, 220, 19, 109, 140, 224, 286, 253, 226, 64, 258, 131, 170, 67], k=2
[EX A]: 61

[EX Q]: [249, 276, 166, 184, 281, 256, 290, 207, 279, 200, 287, 85, 289, 214, 27, 105, 147, 93, 232, 124], k=18
[EX A]:
287