Detailed 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.
See one example below:
Problem: [163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
Solution: 201
Explanation: 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.

Problem: [53, 203, 295, 77, 250, 297, 158, 172, 73, 64, 134, 175, 140, 135, 246, 270, 222, 98, 78, 31], k=17
Solution:
250