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]: [79, 95, 30, 89, 165, 39, 265, 115, 202, 19, 170, 76, 164, 46, 92, 235, 213, 246, 234, 219], k=19
[A]: 246


[Q]: [205, 55, 245, 283, 196, 16, 215, 287, 281, 249, 186, 194, 141, 254, 23, 10, 268, 26, 62, 75], k=2
[A]: 16


[Q]: [178, 170, 196, 57, 265, 258, 84, 209, 259, 87, 130, 134, 49, 106, 18, 177, 207, 199, 131, 257], k=12
[A]:
178


