Instructions: 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.
Input: [158, 275, 17, 60, 47, 109, 91, 170, 99, 147, 83, 245, 216, 112, 176, 151, 279, 78, 260, 149], k=20
Output:
279