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.
Q: [69, 182, 35, 280, 130, 107, 92, 206, 24, 279, 188, 212, 278, 25, 127, 113, 105, 50, 169, 192], k=20
A: 
280