Is there a way to put two labelled equations into one \begin{equation} and align both of them at the beginning?

Question

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

\begin{equation}
a = b + c  \label{1} 
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
ddddddd = e+x \label{2} 
\end{equation}

which gives

Questions:

1. Is it possible to work with just one \begin{equation}. I attempted to put both equations into one \begin{equation} 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.

Answer 1

Write this, after you've loaded amsmath:

\begin{align}
& a = b + c  \label{1} \\
& ddddddd = e+x \label{2} 
\end{align}