Detailed Instructions: 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: [30, 120, 192, 244, 272, 199, 276, 68, 259, 88, 141, 84, 99, 256, 58, 298, 254, 116, 49, 296], k=20
A:
298