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.
[275, 114, 223, 89, 160, 20, 129, 51, 43, 64, 169, 83, 184, 270, 240, 42, 183, 227, 113, 232], k=8
A:
113