Q: 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.
[281, 142, 133, 266, 79, 192, 140, 96, 48, 56, 268, 247, 22, 143, 195, 222, 36, 295, 93, 13], k=4
A:
48