1. The problem asks to describe the association between variables $x$ and $y$ based on a scatter plot. 2. The scatter plot shows points with $x$ values from 0 to 10 and $y$ values from 0 to 10. 3. The points generally increase as $x$ increases, but they are scattered loosely, indicating the relationship is not very strong. 4. A weak positive association means that as $x$ increases, $y$ tends to increase as well, but the points are not tightly clustered around a line. 5. Therefore, the best description of the association between $x$ and $y$ is a weak positive association. Final answer: weak positive association.