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.
[41, 298, 78, 45, 265, 123, 287, 16, 198, 266, 38, 69, 18, 165, 271, 14, 82, 75, 252, 80], k=8
A:
75