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: [176, 263, 284, 189, 131, 102, 40, 179, 289, 150, 209, 81, 114, 51, 162, 48, 66, 195, 49, 20], k=10
A: 
131