About the degree of a polynomial that has only real roots and all coefficients are 1 except one

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I have a polynomial P with real coefficients of degree n, where all coefficients are equal to 1 except one. I need to prove that if the roots of P are all real, then necessarily n < 5. I just want to get an idea to approach this problem. I tried Descartes without success as mentioned in the thread.