Q: 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.
[202, 16, 28, 103, 294, 94, 32, 152, 284, 131, 177, 269, 72, 49, 64, 183, 98, 89, 217, 286], k=11
A:
131