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: [70, 294, 268, 166, 52, 108, 277, 232, 141, 230, 146, 149, 195, 107, 104, 263, 40, 244, 116, 275], k=11
A: 
166