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.
[294, 134, 282, 166, 242, 167, 14, 184, 231, 187, 227, 11, 27, 50, 142, 79, 280, 76, 70, 218], k=7
A:
79