Physics Car Equation, No Idea How to Even Start Figuring Out the Problem
You are riding in a car (moving at a constant velocity) and see an open manhole in the road ahead. You take a cantaloupe out of the grocery bag and hold it out the window of the car. Doing a quick calculation you know how far (in meters) ahead of the hole you have to drop the cantaloupe for it to land in the open hole without bouncing on the road. Choose your own speed of the car (between 10 m/s and 20 m/s) and initial height of the cantaloupe (between 1.0 m and 2.0 m) and show the calculations you used and the resulting lead distance for successfully dropping the fruit.
I'm not asking any one to do it for me I'm asking for help on how to do it because I have no idea how to.