Q: 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.
[178, 142, 146, 64, 29, 225, 162, 274, 62, 51, 177, 263, 80, 173, 179, 282, 58, 164, 172, 271], k=15
A:
179