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.
[275, 200, 282, 39, 14, 78, 85, 228, 225, 136, 34, 52, 89, 135, 17, 41, 218, 37, 196, 119], k=17
A:
225