## LaTeX forum ⇒ Text Formatting ⇒ enumerating equations/formulas

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### enumerating equations/formulas

Imagine this scenario: you are writing a homework assignment and many of the questions are multi-part, e.g. find the derivative of the following functions,'

Now when it comes to listing the equations to differentiate I want to use an enumerate kind of format so that the functions are listed with a number before each one. The functions should be left justified, so I could just use enumerate and put dollar signs around each function (which is already tedious), but for readability, I also need all the equations to be displaystyle, they aren't inline text anyway.

How can I accomplish this? Is there an enumerate hack like the one for tabular where you can make a specific column in mathmode:

\begin{tabular}{c | >{$}c <{$}} ... %First col textmode, 2nd col mathmode

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Johannes_B
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Usually, displayed math environments are used for such a purpose, they are automatically numbered.
\documentclass[leqno]{article}\usepackage{mathtools}\begin{document}\begin{gather}	a+b \\	c+d\\	\sum_{i}^{k}\end{gather}\end{document}
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Stefan Kottwitz
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Hi,

and welcome to the forum!

There are further ways, such as align if you would like to have left alignment for the functions:

\documentclass[leqno]{article}\usepackage{mathtools}\begin{document}\begin{align}   & a+b+c \\   & c+d\\   & \sum_{i}^{k}\end{align}\end{document}`

More can be read in the amsmath manual. Or let us know, if something needs to be adjusted.

Stefan