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.

Example input: [163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
Example output: 201
Example explanation: 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.
Q: [217, 170, 223, 94, 230, 104, 218, 42, 118, 265, 82, 281, 149, 71, 273, 51, 196, 72, 138, 247], k=2
A:
51