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: [38, 140, 149, 176, 267, 22, 88, 193, 87, 36, 284, 214, 226, 86, 50, 188, 96, 49, 125, 167], k=1
A:
22