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: [21, 282, 277, 191, 210, 10, 101, 102, 34, 43, 134, 79, 280, 30, 243, 66, 111, 67, 233, 25], k=19
A:
280