Instructions: 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: [87, 249, 118, 103, 114, 204, 124, 12, 292, 17, 197, 239, 189, 219, 93, 205, 149, 260, 41, 272], k=20
Output:
292