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]: [200, 171, 235, 83, 84, 109, 278, 80, 181, 169, 59, 85, 277, 204, 242, 123, 232, 11, 201, 175], k=17
[EX A]: 235

[EX Q]: [101, 60, 42, 104, 107, 109, 273, 288, 64, 23, 144, 18, 298, 247, 158, 53, 145, 46, 155, 80], k=5
[EX A]: 53

[EX Q]: [162, 147, 103, 261, 215, 61, 298, 268, 131, 45, 267, 58, 176, 155, 200, 17, 96, 57, 18, 109], k=20
[EX A]:
298

