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: [267, 82, 49, 192, 113, 139, 67, 232, 48, 284, 247, 114, 178, 102, 276, 285, 183, 93, 136, 272], k=10
A:
139