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: [57, 142, 270, 170, 25, 43, 266, 222, 101, 103, 98, 219, 215, 39, 286, 194, 198, 257, 204, 60], k=5
Output:
60