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.
Q: [111, 48, 244, 114, 218, 69, 112, 253, 87, 27, 61, 141, 58, 30, 161, 54, 179, 227, 25, 202], k=17
A:
218