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]: [261, 188, 118, 52, 265, 22, 14, 54, 34, 33, 180, 60, 203, 167, 249, 204, 121, 74, 84, 253], k=5
[A]: 52


[Q]: [232, 161, 31, 102, 107, 237, 89, 110, 238, 190, 84, 291, 100, 251, 127, 262, 120, 76, 119, 261], k=2
[A]: 76


[Q]: [73, 55, 234, 249, 278, 48, 169, 163, 119, 225, 88, 286, 47, 285, 37, 248, 226, 23, 127, 187], k=10
[A]:
163


