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]: [259, 161, 27, 153, 19, 36, 233, 25, 292, 137, 56, 65, 193, 171, 282, 114, 10, 108, 43, 128], k=17
[A]: 233


[Q]: [63, 25, 275, 134, 31, 36, 142, 91, 233, 10, 125, 151, 80, 167, 212, 287, 262, 94, 225, 227], k=11
[A]: 142


[Q]: [31, 78, 202, 71, 131, 121, 106, 123, 133, 221, 282, 141, 150, 255, 273, 237, 86, 38, 117, 171], k=18
[A]:
255


