In this task, you are given a sentence and question which can be answered using the sentence. Your task is to answer the question using the information from the sentence. The answer to the question is unique and it is a continuous text span from the sentence.

[Q]: Sentence: As for punishment , intoxication may be a mitigating factor that decreases a prison or jail sentence . 
 Question: what may  decrease something?
[A]: a mitigating factor ### intoxication


[Q]: Sentence: Nash was also involved in North Carolina politics , representing Hillsborough on several occasions in the colonial North Carolina General Assembly . 
 Question: where did someone represent something?
[A]: in the colonial North Carolina General Assembly


[Q]: Sentence: Fayette County was one of the original three counties created from the former Kentucky County , Virginia by the Virginia Act in 1780 , along with Jefferson and Lincoln counties , and which together separated from Virginia in 1792 to become the state of Kentucky . 
 Question: what was something created  by?
[A]:
the Virginia Act in 1780