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.

[EX Q]: [71, 183, 25, 244, 297, 108, 120, 104, 20, 217, 221, 100, 38, 205, 234, 144, 87, 218, 82, 75], k=3
[EX A]: 38

[EX Q]: [58, 120, 69, 63, 71, 205, 237, 129, 43, 163, 159, 132, 42, 274, 171, 117, 295, 144, 188, 242], k=19
[EX A]: 274

[EX Q]: [110, 296, 103, 146, 160, 107, 216, 24, 157, 61, 203, 186, 15, 123, 53, 294, 65, 208, 264, 109], k=10
[EX A]:
123

