# Is there a way to put two labelled equations into one and align both of them at the beginning?

I can't believe how difficult it is to work with . I put one extra blank row under the equation and multiple errors popped up. Anyways, I have two equations which are labelled:

$$a = b + c \label{1}$$
$$ddddddd = e+x \label{2}$$


which gives

Questions:

1. Is it possible to work with just one . I attempted to put both equations into one and it threw me an error.

Package amsmath Error: Multiple \label's: label '1' will be lost. ddddddd = e+x \label

2. Is it possible to align the equations at the beginning so that $a$ and $d$ matches up? I tried using \begin{align} around the code and it gave me.

Bad math environment delimiter. \end{align} You can't use \eqno in math mode. \end{align} Missing \endgroup inserted. \end{align} Missing } inserted. \end{align} \begin{align} on input line 445 end...

And 20 more errors.

Write this, after you've loaded amsmath:
\begin{align}

• Might also want to align the = (just a comment to the OP) – daleif Dec 2 '15 at 10:00