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: [224, 250, 168, 104, 33, 115, 240, 283, 134, 79, 205, 178, 44, 28, 207, 147, 266, 232, 284, 196], k=19
A:
283