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.
[284, 89, 95, 83, 153, 140, 26, 16, 101, 86, 132, 278, 274, 269, 215, 162, 165, 168, 27, 192], k=5
A:
86