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In order to make up for this defect, based on the idea of q-rung orthopair fuzzy numbers (q-ROFNs), we put forward the concept of normal q-rung orthopair fuzzy numbers (q-RONFNs), and its remarkable characteristic is that the sum of the qth power of membership function and the qth power of non-membership function is less than or equal to 1, so it can increase the width of expressing uncertain information for decision makers (DMs). In this paper, firstly, we give the basic definition and operational laws of q-RONFNs, propose two related operators to aggregate evaluation information from DMs, and develop an extended indifference threshold-based attribute ratio analysis (ITARA) method to calculate attribute weights. Then considering the multi-attributive border approximation area comparison (MABAC) method has strong stability, we combine MABAC with q-RONFNs, put forward the q-RONFNs-MABAC method, and give the concrete decision steps. 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