Definition: 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.
Input: [45, 120, 23, 285, 143, 53, 174, 299, 247, 250, 34, 12, 202, 117, 245, 25, 89, 203, 275, 239], k=12
Output:
202