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.
One example is below.
Q: [163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
A: 201
Rationale: 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.
Q: [262, 92, 233, 54, 34, 46, 160, 145, 294, 26, 71, 70, 158, 169, 64, 299, 49, 12, 105, 37], k=15
A:
160