Definition: 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: [132, 118, 107, 69, 262, 17, 92, 63, 232, 178, 298, 224, 82, 287, 144, 268, 73, 71, 48, 94], k=12
Output:
132