Definition: 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: [11, 278, 43, 255, 83, 18, 268, 283, 288, 222, 31, 294, 17, 209, 71, 75, 57, 24, 91, 149], k=2
Output:
17