Definition: 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.
Input: [212, 240, 80, 64, 221, 163, 75, 242, 182, 13, 123, 100, 74, 24, 165, 167, 158, 289, 77, 145], k=15
Output:
182