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.

[129, 75, 285, 265, 190, 68, 56, 171, 228, 174, 200, 208, 134, 84, 210, 48, 272, 47, 199, 116], k=15
208

[242, 54, 259, 204, 67, 182, 168, 17, 287, 143, 272, 78, 48, 91, 224, 84, 201, 126, 18, 199], k=13
199

[182, 93, 282, 251, 185, 285, 123, 216, 136, 165, 161, 75, 247, 246, 162, 141, 124, 13, 188, 191], k=13

188

