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.
One example is below.
Q: [163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
A: 201
Rationale: 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.
Q: [14, 162, 33, 137, 151, 210, 248, 269, 24, 252, 114, 164, 104, 147, 259, 190, 197, 180, 289, 37], k=5
A:
104