The circumference of the top of the cake is
in.
It sounds like the baker is trying to line the circumference with cherriesto fit as many as possible along the border, like in the picture I've attached below.
This comes down to dividing the cake's circumference by the diameter of each cherry:

or about 39 cherries, making the answer D.
The scale factor applied to the model is 8000. 8000 times one equals 8000