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: [30, 120, 192, 244, 272, 199, 276, 68, 259, 88, 141, 84, 99, 256, 58, 298, 254, 116, 49, 296], k=20
A:
298